Soo Ro

Soo Ro is a Principal Scientist in the department of Biochemical & Cellular Pharmacology at Genentech, where she leads SPR and biophysical strategies to advance early small-molecule discovery against complex and membrane-protein targets. With deep experience across fragment-based discovery, DEL, and macrocyclic modalities, she specializes in protein engineering, stabilization, and biophysical characterization to enable high-quality hit generation. Previously at AbbVie, Soo served as lead protein biochemist for challenging targets in aging-related diseases, developing constructs, purification workflows, and orthogonal binding assays. At the Summit, she will share SPR methodologies that overcome membrane-protein instability and detergent-related challenges to deliver reliable interaction profiling.